Hi Conor Sherry,

It might be possible for you to create seperate hardware profiles.
That *might* allow you to easily toggle between driver versions.
It's surprising though that your ATI doesn't work with HALO
while using the latest drivers.. we haven't heard other complaints..

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Conor Sherry Wrote:
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| Jimmy,
|
| I installed the earliest ati catalyst driver there was which was 5.1.
| However it didn't work and I am pretty sure that this would be a driver
| problem and I would probably have to get a much earlier driver but they don't
| archive them from what I saw and 5.1 was the earliest. I used the game in
| offline mode without it patched and it didn't work thats why I did patch it
| hoping it would be fixed. I am really giving up on this game and its
| dissapointing. Are there any other options or should I just give up, becuase
| even if I do find a driver earlier enough which I think is what I need I am
| not going to use that driver just so I can play Halo and sacrifice it for all
| my other games.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Conor Sherry,
||
|| Taking a step back for a moment..
||
|| Unless you actually roll back your video drivers and test HALO again,
|| we cannot be certain that the Video Drivers are at fault. If you would
|| like to (understandably) explore another option before taking this step,
|| I would reinstall HALO and test it offline without installing the updates.
||
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|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
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||
||
|| Conor Sherry Wrote:
|| =================
||| Jimmy,
|||
||| I have games that are really demanding of my system and that run better on
||| the later drivers. For example doom 3 runs better on the later drivers
||| because they have better support for Open GL. Why dousn't microsoft release a
||| patch for this driver problem? When splinter cell came out it worked but a
||| few months later it didn't work with the latest drivers from Nvidia so they
||| patched it and it was compatiable. So do you think microsoft will do that or
||| do you have any other suggestions?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Conor Sherry,
||||
|||| You might use Windows XP driver rollback feature to see if indeed the older
|||| drivers are capable of allowing you to launch HALO, at which point you could
|||| test your other games as well.
||||
|||| What are Omega Drivers?
||||
|||| Modified ATI and nVidia graphics cards drivers. There are two versions of each -
|||| Performance, and Quality. Performance version is faster and looks slightly better
|||| than reference. Quality version is slightly slower, but the visuals are better
|||| (i.e. anisotropic filtering). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Drivers
||||
|||| Omega Drivers have a new home: http://www.omegadrivers.net
||||
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|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| __________________________________________________ _______
||||
||||
|||| Conor Sherry Wrote:
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||||| Jimmy,
|||||
||||| Thanks for writing. I did everything you said and it still crashes before I
||||| start a new game. The thing is though I have had this game installed on this
||||| same PC before and it worked but I uninstalled it. So it had worked in the
||||| past but now it isn't. The only thing I didn't try is using and older driver.
||||| However if I use an older driver then that will be a detriment to my other
||||| games. Also what are omega drivers? So what should I do?
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Conor Sherry,
||||||
|||||| Even thought you've posted that your drivers are up to date, please..
|||||| Double check your Video and Chipset drivers and your DirectX.
||||||
|||||| Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
|||||| simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download accelerators,
|||||| firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing updates;
|||||| b. Check for game patches: www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
|||||| c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system requirements.
||||||
|||||| Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you update DirectX
|||||| from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
||||||
|||||| Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver:
||||||
|||||| 1. To identify the make and model of your card, right click your
|||||| Desktop, choose Properties / Settings / Advanced / Adapter.
||||||
|||||| 2. Download the latest video driver for your card online, using
|||||| http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers
|||||| to find the website to download from. I also have advanced
|||||| video driver and direct X troubleshooting steps on that page.
||||||
|||||| 3. Save the .exe driver (or extract the zip file) to a folder
|||||| in My Documents named after the driver version number.
||||||
|||||| 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|||||| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||||||
|||||| 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
|||||| Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
|||||| the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
||||||
|||||| 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
|||||| previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
||||||
|||||| 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|||||| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||||||
|||||| 8. If the driver is NOT a (.exe)program file, GO TO step 11.
||||||
|||||| 9. When Windows prompts you to install the video adapter, click
|||||| "Cancel" and Double click the driver program to begin installation.
|||||| * Even if not prompted, doubleclick the driver and install it.
||||||
|||||| 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
|||||| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
|||||| That's it! Scroll down to the Troubleshooter if you have problems.
||||||
|||||| 11. When Windows prompts you to install the video adapter, click
|||||| "Install from a list or specific location", click the "Browse" button,
|||||| browse to the My documents folder where you saved the driver,
|||||| and finally click on one of the driver files to begin installation.
||||||
|||||| ** If you are not prompted, or if the driver was updated automatically:
|||||| Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware Device Manager
|||||| expand +Display Adapters / right click on the adapter, pick "Update Driver"
|||||| to start the Update Wizard, choose the "Install from a list..." option:
|||||| Browse to My Documents\ folder with the driver in it
|||||| Click OK and click Next to begin the update.
||||||
|||||| 12. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
|||||| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
|||||| That's it! Try the advice in the Troubleshooter if you have problems.
||||||
|||||| TROUBLESHOOTING:
||||||
|||||| Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
|||||| Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
|||||| If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
|||||| your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
|||||| my website: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
||||||
|||||| Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video cards
|||||| You can disable the extra video output in your display properties control
|||||| panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
||||||
|||||| Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
|||||| and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
|||||| motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
|||||| your Video card. These steps are listed at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
||||||
|||||| Perhaps the old Video drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
|||||| case, use these utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step
|||||| 7:
|||||| nvidia: http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?...atorrip&menu=0
|||||| or for all cards including nvidia use: http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/
||||||
|||||| The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
|||||| (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
|||||| If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
|||||| experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:
||||||
|||||| BETA Drivers: http://download.guru3d.com/
|||||| OMEGA Drivers: http://www.omegacorner.com/
||||||
|||||| There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them! :-)
||||||
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| __________________________________________________ _______
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|||||| Conor Sherry Wrote:
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||||||| My Halo is version 1.07 the latest patch. When click to start a new game it
||||||| comes to the difficulty menu and I choose one and it crashes. It then gathers
||||||| the exception data and I got sent to the error report site and told me to
||||||| update my game so I did to 1.07 and it dousn't work. My system far exceeds
||||||| the system requirements, and all my drivers are up to date. What is wrong?